Steph Huang's "Prawn Fried Rice" is an installation featuring stacked Spam cans filled with rice and a pink, stylized prawn. The juxtaposition of these items creates a visual tension through color contrast and playful arrangement. The work embodies a conceptual exploration of globalization and absurdity, reflecting Huang's focus on the integration of diverse cultures and the economy's quirks. This piece poignantly critiques consumer culture within a capitalist framework, linking everyday objects to larger socio-economic narratives. ...
Steph Huang's artistic practice centers around the integration of both local and foreign cultures, achieved through the repurposing of leftover materials and ready-made objects. This approach allows Huang to examine the surreal absurdity of collective human behavior and its impact on labor force and economy within a capitalist framework. By encompassing sculpture, installation, sound, and photography, Huang delves into the intricate relationship between history, global economics, and colonialism, highlighting the complexity of these themes. Through their autobiographical narrative storytelling method, exemplified by works such as Verbalise Vase (2022) and the Future Message (2021), Huang closely observes incidental details and explores the relationships between objects as well as their ties to eccentric moments in everyday life. The examination of the contemporary human experience is achieved through a close attention to incidental details and the exploration of the relationship between objects, as well as their connection to particular moments in daily life. Huang frequently employs analog photography to capture these moments, which serve as a starting point for new concepts conveyed through assemblage, resulting in sculptural works that possess a lyrical quality and invite the viewer to engage with them. ...
